Jacob Jonas The Company culminated its 2018/2019 Season Company-in-Residence at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with a program that introduced two world premieres and reprised two repertory works that expressed a range of choreographic style from the sublimely
Written by Michael Baroff; To commemorate the 100th birthday of Merce Cunningham, who died in 2009, the Merce Cunningham Trust co-produced Night of 100 Solos during which 75 dancers from around the world performed on three stages in London, New York
"Lazarus," is exquisitely breathtaking! What an incredible night! The West Coast premiere of the company's first two-act ballet, "Lazarus," was so vibrant, beautiful and powerful, we were mesmerized from start to finish. Part of the 60th anniversary celebration tour, it was
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presented a musically driven two part show at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. In the first half, Third Coast Percussion, the Grammy award winning quartet of classically trained percussionists,
The Nutcracker in a word - magical! The classic story of The Nutcracker at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion performed by Miami City Ballet, began with beautiful animation projected on the stage curtain creating a screen effect, with layers of beautifully hand
In 2017, Bill T. Jones removed the word "dance" from the name of the company he founded with Arnie Zane in 1983. As he now says, "We're a contemporary performance ensemble." It is with this subtle, yet meaningful, frame of reference
The renowned Los Angeles-based dance company Diavolo with their unique fusion of performance styles and elaborately designed and viscerally engaging sets brought their newest "adventure" Voyage along with their 2000 work Trajectoire to Gloria Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center.
Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center's 2018-19 Season opened with British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor contemporary dance company performing Autobiography. This mesmerizing work is an 80-minute contiguous series of 23 sections performed by the company of ten dancers
The Barak Ballet, founded by Los Angeles native Melissa Barak, returned to the Broad Stage for their fourth time and presented two world premier pieces, Cypher and Desert Transport, and a reprise of last year's well received E/SPACE.Cypher: photo credit Cheryl
Acclaimed South African choreographer Dada Masilo transforms the classical ballet story of a girl who dies of a broken heart from the betrayal by her suitor and then enters a netherworld into a high energy feminist reclaiming of power that re-imagines
